Faculty Development Groups

The Farm, Food, and Health FDG creates a space for faculty to discuss topics in our classrooms and beyond and to explore and engage in research on human and environmental health, especially in sustainable urban agriculture. We will share and discuss pedagogy and research, learn ways to engage with the KCC Community Farm and Garden, brainstorm class projects, and explore opportunities to create and support campus events to improve access to healthy food and help improve health outcomes.

 If you are interested in healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems, improving health outcomes among our students, exploring how the KCC Community Farm and Garden and Hydroponics lab can support your course's goals and objectives, or act as a research space, come and join like-minded colleagues as we continue to do great work to help our students beyond academics. Looking for new FDG members from the faculty to join us!

Learning Goals/Outcomes:

1) Increase knowledge on how to utilize the KCC Community Farm and Garden and Hydroponics Lab campus resources

2) Explore ways to include topics of human and environmental health from an urban agriculture context in our classrooms.

3) Create collaborative activities around research and campus activities that support increased knowledge of an equitable and sustainable food system that can improve public health outcomes among our student population.